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pulls the wool over one's eyes

phrase , present tense third-person singular of pull the wool over one's eyes

Synonyms and Antonyms of pulls the wool over one's eyes

to cause to believe what is untrue

He tried to pull the wool over my eyes with some cockamamy story about losing his phone.

Synonyms of pulls the wool over one's eyes

bamboozles, beguiles, bluffs, buffaloes, burns, catches, cons, cozens, deceives, deludes, dupes, fakes out, fools, gaffs, gammons, gulls, has, has on [chiefly British], hoaxes, hoodwinks, hornswoggles, humbugs, juggles, misguides, misinforms, misleads, snookers, snows, spoofs, strings along, suckers, sucks in, takes in, tricks

Words Related to pulls the wool over one's eyes

kids, puts on, teases

bleeds, cheats, chisels, defrauds, diddles, euchres, fleeces, flimflams, gyps, hustles, mulcts, rooks, shortchanges, skins, squeezes, sticks, stings, swindles

Phrases Synonymous with pulls the wool over one's eyes

does a number on, leads one down the garden path (also leads one up the garden path), pulls one's leg

Near Antonyms of pulls the wool over one's eyes

debunks, exposes, reveals, shows up, uncloaks, uncovers, unmasks

discloses, divulges, tells, unveils

disabuses, disenchants, disillusions

Antonyms of pulls the wool over one's eyes

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